Sunday, November 30, 2008

Thanksgiving was awesome!

As the header says, Thanksgiving was awesome! My brother in law got to be home with his family for the holiday and is feeling better, I made an awesome sweet potato casserole, and we had a lot of fun at BJ's mom's house. It feels wierd to think of her as the mother in law. She was making Thanksgiving lunch for all the people's in her house, so BJ and I came too and brought the sweet potato casserole and a bottle of champagne. If you got to try the sweet bubbly at my wedding, it was the same thing. I like that particular brand. And, unlike wine, I can drink a whole glass without losing all cognitive thought. Wine goes straight to my head after a few sips. I was the camera monster for the holiday. I realized how many awesome and amazing pictures I have from the wedding and am putting together a sweet scrapbook of all the pics. So I decided to take pictures and make other scrapbooks too, sort of to chronicle our lives together now that we are married. I don't have a lot of pictures from before the wedding. I think it comes from a combination of being camera shy and lazy. *sorry Mom* I took over 60 pictures. I'm trying to figure out how my sister Nicki does it. She's very unobtrusive and she takes some really awesome pictures. She gave me a couple right after the wedding which were awesome, and I'm waiting...patiently I swear...to see the rest. : ) Anyhows...Check these pictures out.

I took this one in the car while I was waiting for BJ to come back out. We had to turn around and go back because we forgot the champagne.
BJ and Roxana lauging at Eric's joke.
Eric lauging at BJ's joke.
Vanessa, Roxana, and Eric being a smart alec in the background...stinker.
I watched a Thanksgiving special episode on take home chef where he showed everyone how to carve a bird so as to leave behind as little meat as possible. So when Sonya yelled out, "Who wants to carve the turkey!?" I volunteered and tested my television education. It worked remarkably well, I was very happy and impressed by it. The meat pulled away from the bone and all I left behind me were the bones! GO ME!
Now I am working on my holiday projects. Since it is our first Christmas as married folk, and BJ and I don't have any stockings, I am making our stockings! They will be very americana craft / homemade look in their design. I promise there will be pictures when I am finished. I am fine tuning the puppets for the snow queen now. Add a feather here, glue a bit of felt there. We open on Friday!!!! Production shots of the sweet puppets I built are to come, promise!

Thursday, November 20, 2008

No really, I still blog...in my mind!

I promise I did not abandon my blog. I just pushed down the hold button and promised to come back to it, eventually...Get ready for some loading time because I got some pictures to show you. See there ---> That is my spiffy new haircut, I like it a lot, it's very flattering, but also very different. It's been a while since my hair has been this short, so I think it may take some readjusting to my new "look." I've been busy busy busy with The Snow Queen and her puppets, plus writing my thank you notes, I've got one more to finish and then I am DONE! Woot! Here is a cool shot of the reindeer just chilling on the couch.
Isn't he just the cutest little reindeer headdress thingamajig? The four pigeons also came out really nicely, but I still have to take a picture of them. I really need to remember, the camera is my friend, the camera is my friend, the camera...hm, I want cocoa. Please excuse me!

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Married woman, that's me

Well everybody, this weekend, I got married to the most wonderful husband in the world. It still feels a little funny to say, hi I'm Brittany Garmon, I keep thinking I'm saying something wrong, like it's someone else's name, but I like it. : ) BJ and I went to the store and used our gift money on new plates and the like, and now we have a lot of sweet towels. Therefore if you come to visit, you do not have to pack a towel anymore. WooHoo! And, the best present of all, aside from the awesome dragon and gargoyle stuff and the skull cookie jar, my brand spanking new kitchenaid stand mixer *hug!* I got some really cool stuff, hung out with a lot of awesome people, and realized once more just how AWESOME our friends are. The whole weekend people were just finding me or BJ "What can I do?" I loved every bit of it, well, except for the florist. I didn't love the florist. *Sigh, I must go vote, and then build puppets, and then if I am really really good later, I can play with some more of the awesome wedding pictures that people have already sent to me. Pictures to come!!!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Brittany J. Garmon